Week 52 Reviews: Insatiable, Overbite

From Goodreads:
Sick of hearing about vampires? So is Meena Harper. 

But her bosses are making her write about them anyway, even though Meena doesn’t believe in them. 

Not that Meena isn’t familiar with the supernatural. See, Meena Harper knows how you’re going to die. (Not that you’re going to believe her; no one ever does.)

But not even Meena’s precognition can prepare her for what happens when she meets—then makes the mistake of falling in love with—Lucien Antonescu, a modern-day prince with a bit of a dark side. It's a dark side a lot of people, like an ancient society of vampire-hunters, would prefer to see him dead for.

The problem is, Lucien's already dead. Maybe that’s why he’s the first guy Meena’s ever met that she could see herself having a future with. See, while Meena’s always been able to see everyone else’s future, she’s never been able look into her own. 

And while Lucien seems like everything Meena has ever dreamed of in a boyfriend, he might turn out to be more like a nightmare. 

Now might be a good time for Meena to start learning to predict her own future . . . 


If she even has one.

From Goodreads: 
Meena Harper has a special gift, but it's only now that anyone's ever appreciated it. The Palatine Guard — a powerful secret demon-hunting unit of the Vatican — has hired her to work at their new branch in Lower Manhattan. With Meena's ability to predict how everyone she meets will die, the Palatine finally has a chance against the undead.

Sure, her ex-boyfriend was Lucien Antonescu, son of Dracula, the prince of darkness. But that was before he (and their relationship) went up in flames. Now Meena's sworn off vampires for good ... at least until she can prove her theory that just because they've lost their souls doesn't mean demons have lost the ability to love.

Meena knows convincing her co-workers — including her partner, über-demon-hunter Alaric Wulf — that vampires can be redeemed won't be easy ... especially when a deadly new threat seems to be endangering not just the lives of the Palatine, but Meena's friends and family as well.

But Meena isn't the Palatine's only hope. Father Henrique — aka Padre Caliente — New York City's youngest, most charming priest, has also been assigned to the case.

So why doesn't Meena — or Alaric — trust him?

As she begins unraveling the truth, Meena finds her loyalties tested, her true feelings laid bare ... and temptations she never even imagined existed, but finds impossible to resist.

This time, Meena may finally have bitten off more than she can chew.

My first review of Insatiable, Overbite
My Review:
These are really great books! And great mysteries! I just wish that Overbite either hadn't been that short, or that we're going to get that 3rd book, because I want to spend more time in this world, I mean, we haven't gotten an explanation as to why Meena can tell, with a touch, when someone's going to die!

I loved Meena and Lucien's relationship in the first book, even if at the end, they don't really have one any more, and still, how he protects her in Overbite, which is just so sweet, especially as she's falling for Alaric. Which makes her life pretty complicated!

There is a bit of mystery in both books, from Meena finding out what Lucien is, to who is the one that's killing all these people, and yeah, there's Father Henrique, and I know he was a bad guy, and how he was actaully a vampire, yeah, in an organization that kills said vampires, yeah.

But Lucien gives his life so that Meena could live, and embraces his mom's goodness, which was good for her. Plus her friends, the ones that had been there at the battle of the first book, were dealing with that, and being told the truth, they were really rather funny!

Really enjoyed these books, and I'm really hoping for a 3rd book!

Author: Meg Cabot
Series: Insatiable #1, 2
First Read: August 6th, 2011, August 5th, 2012
Read: December 25th, 26th, 2013
Source: Own
Reason Why: Rereading! And Overbite is a Sequel Challenge 2013 Book!
Publisher: William Morrow, HarperCollins Publishers
Published: June 8th 2010, July 1st 2011

Insatiable:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Overbite:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars